REVOLUTION+1

REVOLUTION+1 (2023)

REVOLUTION＋1

Tatsuya Kawakami's mother becomes a member of a religious group after her husband commits suicide, and makes a large donation to the organization. Her three children are forced to live in poverty, and her eldest son, who is blind in one eye due to illness, takes his own life. Kawakami comes to believe that the religious group has ruined his life, so he creates a homemade gun and carries out an assassination plot against former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who has close ties to the religious group, which has been accused of siphoning off money from its members.

Date of release
2023-03-11
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Drama
Director
Masao Adachi

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: ¥7M

Revolution+1 is a 2022 Japanese biographical experimental film directed by Masao Adachi. It is a semi-fictionalized account of the life of Tetsuya Yamagami, the main suspect in the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. The film was produced rapidly in the aftermath of Abe's assassination in July 2022: the first draft of the screenplay was written in three days, filming was completed in eight days, and an unfinished 50-minute cut of the film was screened on September 26, 2022, the day before Abe's state funeral. The final cut of Revolution+1 was released in Japan on December 24, 2022.

Production

Revolution+1 is directed by Masao Adachi, a former member of the Japanese Red Army who emerged as an experimental filmmaker in the 1960s. Adachi stated that he was inspired to make a film about the Abe assassination after learning that it was not an act of political terrorism, but rather that the alleged assassin "acted as an individual executioner who came to his own decision [...] rather than being directed by a political organization or social…

The screenplay was written by Junichi Inoue, who completed the first draft in roughly three days. Kenji Takama served as cinematographer, and the music was composed by Otomo Yoshihide, who completed the soundtrack in two hours. Tatsuya Kawakami is portrayed by actor Soran Tamoto; Inoue noted that it was difficult to find an actor affiliated with an agency willing to take the role, but that Tamoto was a freelancer and thus not bound by an agency.

Filming for Revolution+1 commenced in Tokyo in late August 2022, and concluded after eight days. Adachi stated that he "felt a sense of urgency" to produce the film, and that he wished to create and release it "before the media was able to distort the situation and propagate the shooter’s criminal profile or their version of his grounds for this incident". The film was produced on a budget of ¥7 million (US$44,215.37).

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